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Around 24 hours before the horrific mid-air collision between an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter near Reagan National Airport, a regional jet had a helicopter appear near its flight path.
According to The Washington Post, the cockpit crew alerted the air traffic control tower and had to make a second approach.
🚨 #BREAKING: Just 24 HOURS before an American Airlines flight collided with a Blackhawk at Reagan National Airport, ANOTHER American flight had to abort landing due to a helicopter crossing its flight path at the same airport
AA4514 can be seen on radar having to go around a… pic.twitter.com/kecSr9V8WP
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 31, 2025
The Washington Post reports:
“We had an RA with a helicopter traffic below us,” a female voice in the cockpit of Republic Airways Flight 4514 said at roughly 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, according to the audio recording from air traffic control. “RA” is the code for the automated emergency alert, known as a resolution advisory, that pilots receive when their aircraft is at risk of collision with a nearby aircraft.
Flight 4514, a twin-jet Embraer ERJ 175, had departed Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday and was heading south along the Potomac River corridor toward its planned landing at National, flight tracker maps show.
But just as the aircraft neared Memorial Bridge, a male voice in the cockpit alerted the tower that they had to “go-around.” The plane took a sharp turn to the west, according to flight tracker maps of the aircraft’s path.
American Airlines plane crashed in D.C. just 24 hours after eerily similar near-miss between jet and helicopter https://t.co/3PxGr0mUfH pic.twitter.com/EqsgQuB8Uf
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) January 31, 2025
Per Daily Mail:
Flightradar data for the flight shows the plane had been travelling from Windsor Locks in Connecticut to the city and had to dramatically gain altitude shortly after descending on Reagan National Airport. It eventually landed safely.
The incident is eerily similar to the events of Wednesday night, when an American Airlines plane smashed into a US Army Black Hawk helicopter as it came into land at the airport.
The aircraft collided in a huge fireball that was visible on dashcams of cars driving on highways that snake past the airport, and crashed into the river.
Sixty-four people – 60 passengers and four crew – were onboard and all died, officials said.
Three soldiers had been inside the helicopter at the time of the incident and had been on a training mission. They also died in the collision bringing the death toll to 67.
At least 40 bodies have since been pulled from the Potomac River following extensive recovery missions by emergency teams.
President Trump said on Thursday that “there are no survivors” from the deadly mid-air collision.
“Sadly, there are no survivors. This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation’s capitol and in our nation’s history and a tragedy of terrible proportions,” Trump said.
President Trump Says “There Are No Survivors” From Tragic DC Plane-Helicopter Crash